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Title: Hon. R.T. Goldsworthy, Murchison District

Languages: Hon. R.T. Goldsworthy, Champion Bay From Curr's Australian Race, vol. I 

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Hon. R.T. Goldsworthy, Champion Bay From Curr's Australian Race, vol. I (Marked words in Murchison vocabulary) Hon. R.T. Goldsworthy of Champion Bay

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Kangaroo yooada
Opossum waiada
Tame dog hotther (?)
Emu kulire
Black duck banargee
Pelican knulumberry
White cockatoo nanara
Crow wauga
Swan woorotho
Egg wolla
Track of a foot enar
Fish winargee
Lobster atta
Crayfish marthera
Mosquito woolowoolo
Fly weale
Snake wagardee
The blacks amanoodoo
A blackfellow amangoo
A blackwoman wooanoo
Nose mootha
Hand ma
Two blacks amangoo woothera
Three blacks amangoo woothera kootea
One kootea
Two woothera
Three woothera kootea
Four woothera-woothera
Father ammatha
Mother agootha
Sister (elder) narra-butha
Brother (elder) whoratha
A young man agarthar
An old man yargoo-nobagy
An old woman boogara-nobagy
A baby nurelee
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A white man mini
Children arbarla, wercachum
Head kogkolee
Eye tragoo
Ear wooka
Mouth nammano
Teeth iradgy
Hair of the head knuennoo
Beard narga
Thunder bindana
Grass hoorinning (?)
Tongue yalanyoo
Stomach wikoo
Breasts peatpoo
Thigh whoo-da
Foot ena
Bone nabboo
Blood knooba
Skin opa
Fat karnoo
Bowels turoo
Excrement woonna
Spear (war) weerangoo
Throwing stick tuna
Shield wooda
Tomahawk kooga
Canoe kewardie
Sun edoo
Moon kneela
Star edoo, wengoo
Light hewerloo
Dark mowoobut
Cold thy
Heat thoebut
Day kanowwan
Night mowoo
Fire karla
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Water howa (?)
Smoke yoo-goroo
Ground hotheroo (?)
Wind weethuterra
Rain boodoo
Wood weoginoo
Stone ardoo
Camp knurra
Yes koko
No yingh
I ni
You yinnee
Bark poopi
Good kwar
Bad yarrow
Sweet knootabatta
Food knock-yerree
Hungry kutcheroo
Thirsty wajeloo, aknoo
Eat nalla
Sleep narrea
Drink howa (?)
Walk jakkara
See knooa
Sit kneear
Yesterday woorada
Today karrowa
Tomorrow yooathalarra
Where are the blacks? wathe yaro amangoo?
I don't know eruga
Plenty booltha
Big eda
Little pooree
Dead werder
By and bye walloo
Come on jekkower

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